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“FireEye” reveal the electronic gang specialized in stealing credit card information and sold in a secret shop

Apr

25

2016

A company “FireEye”, specialized in addressing advanced electronic attacks, for high – destruction capabilities known as electronic FIN6 gang activities.

She said , “FireEye” that in 2015 the company has the support of many of the investigations that show in which the elements of the FIN6 targeting and penetration of e – procurement systems, which enabled them to rob a million numbers to payment cards. Later, the gang sell these cards in the numbers dedicated to the sale of cards secret shop, and thus it is likely to be a gang FIN6 has reaped gains of hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the report published by the company.

On the other hand, had cooperated “FireEye” with iSIGHT Partners company specialized digital security To unify research efforts to provide comprehensive and innovative look FIN6 gang activities. These joint efforts have led to crystallize a clear vision of the work of the gang mechanism from the initial breakthroughs of the network or systems access to the methods used to track the victims ‘ networks and sell the stolen payment card data in the secret markets.

It has been reached that the seized data from victims of gang FIN6 have been sold during the period dating back to 2014. year , which confirms that the stolen data has ended up in the hands of workers in the field of export fraud operations around the world, because they are buying payment card numbers secret store and exploit for malicious purposes. Soon , the stolen data to appear in the shops started within six months from the date of impenetrable by a gang FIN6. While the size of the data sold through secret Store may vary in terms of the nature of the process of penetration, but that, in some cases, it may have been identified in that store more than 10 million card-related operations for penetrating emerging gang FIN6. After that publishes these stolen data, quickly purchased to be used for fraudulent purposes. In addition to gang – related FIN6 data, enables this store from the sale of appropriated data from millions of other cards, which may be linked to breakthroughs committed by other hackers.

And see “FireEye” that the issue of FIN6 show the modus operandi of pirate gangs in the real world, and provides a thorough overview about the technical details of the process of penetration, in addition to the human factor also, and specifically, the method of communication between the cyber – criminals or pirate gangs, and how it is not data alone are They may be exchanged or sold privately, but there are also tools and personal identification data and services to assist in the illegal entry of accounts. In that case, the combined efforts of the teams managed to FireEye and its partners Unlock the mystery of the activity of malicious software designed to steal payment card data, as well as provide a detailed presentation on the activity starting from the first stage of penetration down to turn stolen data into cash.